There was the answer on the old website but age and decrepitude have rendered my memory of the command as a complete blank, please help
TIA
Dick
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changing uid of files
by towy71 » Wed Apr 20, 2005 7:53 am
I am in the process of moving away from Mandrake and want to copy the file from my Mandrake /home folder to my Kubuntu folder but I need to change the ownership from uid 501 to 1001.
There was the answer on the old website but age and decrepitude have rendered my memory of the command as a complete blank, please help
TIA
Dick
There was the answer on the old website but age and decrepitude have rendered my memory of the command as a complete blank, please help
TIA
Dick
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RE: changing uid of files
by nelz » Wed Apr 20, 2005 8:07 am
man chown 
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